From the monthly archives:

October 2008

Trick or Treat?

by Jorge Escobar on October 31, 2008

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Don’t Wait Any Longer: End Procrastination Now!

October 27, 2008
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We’ve all been there. You come in to the office early. You scan the huge list of pending items to complete today. There’s no way you’ll be able to deliver them all on time. You say to yourself “Let me read some blogs or see what people are doing in Facebook. I’m sure I’ll get some ideas or relax to take on the monster pile.” Your co-worker taps you on the shoulder. “Wanna do lunch?”

Where did your morning go?

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Television Is Finally Evolving. Or Is It?

October 23, 2008
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It’s 2008, and we still haven’t figured out how to make televisions and the web talk to each other. Apple TV is a fiasco, and DVRs are stuck in their telcos. In this article I want to share some of my personal experiences and how frustrated I am with the state of online media in our living rooms

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Who Do I Blame for the Economy’s Downturn? The Web!

October 15, 2008
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I don’t think there’s been a time when it was as apparent as it is now that people in this country — myself included — have become hypermaniacs who can’t take their eyes off from a 5-second refresh-rate screen.

Yes, I blame The Web for the economic downturn.

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Scalability Talk with the Experts

October 9, 2008
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I just participated in a great webminar titled “Avoiding the Fail Whale“, where Robert Scoble moderated a group of guests to talk about scalability issues and planning.

The guests, which included Paul Bucheit, Founder of Friendfeed (and who also did a lot of the development work for Gmail), Dorion Carroll, VP of engineering at Technorati and Nat Brown, CTO of iLike, touched on many aspects of how they were able to scale their applications across hundreds of servers.

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Got Chrome? (A Real Review of Google’s Browser)

October 2, 2008
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When I heard Google was coming out with a browser, I tell you, I couldn’t contain myself. I IM’d everyone in the office, and Twittered, FriendFeeded, Ping.fm’d, and while reading the transcript of the launch conference, salivating with primal anxiousness, I refreshed Google’s download page several, several, several times.

And then the download link appeared.

Fast forward to 30 days later and witness something that happens rarely. I’m still using it.

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